Tree Canopy Growth Ideas
Citizens for Redondo’s Trees
Dec. 2025
1. Plant Trees on City Properties
2. Create Tree-centric Internal Review Processes
3. Accountability
4. Learn from other Cities’ Standards and Practices
5. Parkway-Sidewalk Designs that Fit a Street’s Design, Type, & Use
6. Create and Accept Donations to a Tree Trust Fund
7. Educate and Disseminate Information
8. Urban Forestry Master Plan
9. Embrace Volunteer Help
10. Establish a Designation for Unique Trees
10 Ways to Growth Redondo’s Tree Canopy
1. Add Shade Trees to City-owned Properties
2. Tree-centric Reviews and Processes
During any project’s initial design review, determine the tree locations and needs.
Have Staff check that survey, site plan, grading plan, landscape plan, irrigation plan, LID etc. match.
Memorialize a property’s tree requirements in order to easily verify compliance years from now.
Public Works
Streets, Parks,
City Property
Code
Enforcement
Planning
Private Property
City Council,
Commissions, &
Urban Forester
3. Accountability
Verify Required Trees Have Not Been Removed Before Issuing New Licenses, Permits, Entitlements, etc.
In 2022, this parkway contained street trees.
Examples:
Concurrent Improvement
If a parkway lacks a parkway tree, prior to a building permit exceeding XXX sq. ft. or permit with a equivalent or greater valuation, a parkway tree and tree well fee shall be paid.
Minimum tree and spacing standards
Parkway trees shall be required for each fifty (50) feet or a fraction thereof of frontage including side frontage. Tree wells shall be required where the parkway width between the sidewalk and curb is less than thirty (30) inches.
4. Learn from other Cities
Add
Transparent & Objective Tree Planting Standards
5. Select Street Tree Location Based on
Street Form and Function
Street Function Tree Location
Commercial Street with curbside
parking
Install Tree Wells, No parkways
Commercial Street with 11’ travel
lanes without curbside parking
Place Tree in Parkway
Residential Street with curbside
parking and 2’ parkway
Place Sidewalk next to curb and have
2’ landscape area and tree between
front yard and sidewalk
Residential Street with utility lines
and 2’ parkway
Place Sidewalk next to curb and have
2’ landscape area and tree between
front yard and sidewalk
Residential ROW (40’-50’ wide)
with no parkway
RBMC Sec. 10-2.1900(e) In the R-1
zone
Add distance from dwelling and
sidewalk
Medians > 3’ x 4’ Plant a tree
Large parkways should contain larger shade trees.
6. Establish a Tree Fund
Sources:
● Donations
● Fines
● Development Agreements
● Grants
7. Educate and Disseminate Information
8. Develop an Urban Forestry Management Plan &
Employ Professional Urban Forestry Staff
9. Partner with Community Groups to Plant Trees
&
to Create Educational Information
10. Designate Historic Trees
Trees are a part of Redondo Beach’s collective heritage and have earned our esteem.